Live Play Data

Sphinx's Revelation

· Instant · The List (PLST)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

575

Decks Running

261

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

57%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=70

11%

60%

T6-9

27%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 18

Cast same turn as drawn 18%

The "good card" funnel

575 brought · 242 players

Brought to game

575

Ever drawn

123

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -7.2pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=66) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=385).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=45).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap +3.5pp; 95% confidence interval -7.2pp to +14.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

137 instances

4.4%

Library

2.2%

Battlefield

49.6%

Graveyard

10.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Sphinx's Revelation

Instant

You gain X life and draw X cards.

The List (PLST) · Rare · Illustrated by Slawomir Maniak

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.